South Africa leads Covid deaths in Africa – by far
A health worker records details of a woman before testing her for Covid-19 at the Fourways Life Hospital in Johannesburg on June 28, 2021. South Africa has crossed the threshold of 60,000 Covid-19 deaths. PHOTO | AFP
Scientists are still working out why South Africa, of all African countries, should have been so hard-hit by Covid-19.
It is not just that South Africa has now over 100,000 known or ascribed Covid deaths, but that it also has over 306,000 "excess natural deaths", many expected to have been undiagnosed Covid-deaths, others caused indirectly by the pandemic by preventing timely treatment, or even any treatment, for a range of other fatal conditions.
